How did elephants' ancestors change over time?

Answer 1

No, the elephant certainly did NOT evolve from manatees. After the first common ancestor mutated, it eventually changed into the five kingdoms. Although sharing the same Kingdom, elephants are not related to manatees closely enough for there to be any mutation. Such a large mutation is not yet possible for organisms other than bacteria, such as AIDS.

Answer 2

They first appear in the geological record in the late Paleocene, a geologic epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago.

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60,000,000 years ago

Answer 3

They were cows who ate too many cheeseburgers and transfats!

Answer 4

they have been traced back to southern and northern Africa.

Answer 5

The modern elephant is a descendant of prehistoric mammoths. For further information, refer to the "Animal Corner!" link, below.

Answer 6

The first elephants were pig sized creatures without tusks and trunks that lived in nothern Africa about 50 million years ago.

Answer 7

The answer is they changed by growing a tusk and trunk.

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Answer 8

wooly mamoth